Increasing public awareness, calls for greater accountability and emerging legislation such as the Marine Bill, are changing the way that the coastal zone and marine environment are managed. In particular,...

Two decades ago as CO of a survey ship, I interpreted the SSS-registrations (still on wet paper) twice. Once was for nautical charting purposes and the second, in my own...

A 3rd century AD Roman shipwreck site, off the coast of Sicily has been inspiring archaeologists with its array of historical treasures. The wreck site was first discovered in May...

More than 700 educators, administrators, researchers, librarians, and museum professionals from more than 35 countries attended the ESRI Education User Conference (EdUC), from 2nd to 5th August 2008 in San...

The EU's Maritime Policy Blue Book, welcomed by the European Council in December 2007, undertook to take steps towards a European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODNET) that would improve...

Hydro9, this year’s International Federation of Hydrographic Society annual conference, was presented by the Hydrographic Society of South Africa on 10 to 12 November 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa....

Reports over the past few months have heralded the end of recession in more and more countries. There has even been news of modest economic growth. Profits are posted in...

Geospatial software and services leader Intergraph recently welcomed record numbers of customers and partners to its user conferences in Eastern Europe to experience the latest in Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)...

Hydro9, this year’s International Federation of Hydrographic Society’s annual conference, was presented by the Hydrographic Society of South Africa on 10 — 12 November 2009 in Cape Town (South Africa)....

SeaZone is collaborating with hydrographic offices and other organisations from Norway, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and United Kingdom on a 3 year European funded project to improve marine reference information...